This is a replication archive for: "Revisiting the Link between Politicians' Salaries and Corruption," by Marko Klasnja, Mihaly Fazekas and Ahmed Alshaibani, accepted at the British Journal of Political Science.

All the analyses were done on Stata 18.5, Revision 26 Feb 2025. 

The archive includes the following files: 

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Code:
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analysis-paper.do - do-file that replicates all the analyses in the paper
analysis-supplementary-appendix.do - do-file that replicates all the analyses in the supplementary appendix
_programs.do - do-file containing several programs used by the other do-files

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Data:
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data-main.dta - main dataset (zipped because of size; unzip in the same directory before using)
data-city-characteristics - data for balance tests containing several city characteristics
data-Romania - data for balance tests containing several locality characteristics in Romania

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Notes:
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Download the archive onto a hard drive, open the do-files directly from it. There are several user-written packages used in the analyses. Do-files contain the lists and instructions for how to download them. 

Send any questions or comments to marko.klasnja@georgetown.edu.
